The President spoke today.

[flamin lib]

He held a press conference in the Rose Garden. He had two items he wanted to address: North Korea and the Economy.

As expected, he tried to deflect North Korea to “previous administrations”. After all, Clinton had eight years to deal with NK and Bush has only had six. Anyone know when the statute of limitations runs out on the Clenis?

As for the other item he said the Economy was strong and growing because of his “pro growth” tax cuts.

Strong for who? How many working people out there are scared to death that their job will disappear to China or India tomorrow? He said that unemployment is low, yet job creation has not kept up with population growth in most months. If more people are entering the work force than are being hired, how is unemployment down? The numbers just don’t work out. He said his tax cuts put more money in people’s pockets. How many of you are making more now and have more money to spend than you did six years ago?

Manufacturing jobs are going overseas as fast as big business can pack the crates. Ford lay offs topped 5000, GM 25,000 and Maytag 1,000 in the last year alone. That’s in addition to the more than 50,000 that Forbes Magazine reports since 2004. In 2002 Motorola Fort Worth alone sent 6,000 jobs to China, both manufacturing and engineering. Along with those jobs went all the restaurant jobs, hospitality jobs and sales & engineering support jobs for that campus. Easily 10,000 jobs in north Ft Worth and that’s just one of the Telecoms that outsourced that year. A month ago Radio Shack sent its customer service jobs to somewhere in the Middle East, another 400 Ft Worth jobs gone and they did it by email. One single mother I know who was caught up in that layoff found a job but there were 400 resumes, 70 interviews and only two hires. Does that sound like unemployment is low? Yet we hear from President Bush that there are jobs that Americans just won’t do.

Woodward says the administration is in a State of Denial over foreign policy. Somebody needs to write a book about his domestic policy as well.

[Kagemusha]

1. If the President speaks and no one cares, does anyone hear?

Today's philosophical question.

[rhiannon55]

2. What is the sound of one hand clapping?

:eyes:

[TahitiNut]

4. mu

[Kagemusha]

10. Ah, is that the real answer?

Since 'mu' is 'nothing' in Japanese. Believe it or not I've only heard the question posed, never the answer given. But I'm not exactly deep into Zen. Except the Daily Show's daily moment thereof.

[TahitiNut]

11. It's a koan. 'Answer' is meaningless.

Live in the question.

[Kagemusha]

12. If that's the answer, living in the question sounds wise indeed.

:)

[MrModerate]

3. Those "jobs Americans won't do" are also bullshit . . .

Americans won't do them not because they're beneath our dignity or get our hands dirty (or whatever the excuse is) but because they don't pay enough to live.

Americans reject the idea of committing themselves to a life of peonage to enrich already wealthy farmers, restrateurs, hotel owners, manufacturers, and hirers-of-domestic-help, and so such jobs fall to people who *will* enslave themselves because it's a step up from the dire conditions they're fleeing. And those people pay a terrible price in physical and mental health for the working conditions they suffer under.

[gumby]

5. He's talking about the economy NOW.

Talkin' 'bout puttin' food on your table.

[niyad]

6. I thought President Gore was still in Amsterdam

[nam78_two]

8. !

:thumbsup:

[nam78_two]

7. Of course global warming or the environment are never worth mentioning

Never mind that the US is contributing scarily to the world' "ecological debt" or that the news on this front never gets better, in fact is rapidly picking up pace.
:eyes:
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"Our children" is a phrase frequently heard from conservative mouths-its usually in regard to religion or protecting them from "those homosexuals" etc.
How many of these conservatives with self-professed concern for "the children" are thinking about the future we are leaving them...
No lets protect "the children" from imaginary boogeymen while ignoring the elephant in the room.....

:banghead: :banghead:

[gumby]

9. Bush says that we must remain an

Entrepreneurial Heaven, and the way to do that is lowering taxes.

He's explaining, in his chimp way, how lowering taxes increases revenues. Cons just never tire of that lie, do they?

Geeze, he's doing his 9th grader teaching 5th graders routine again; explaining the meaning of different kinds of spending.